One City Built to Last

eanor Rogan, PhD and Ercole Cavalieri, D. Sc, collecting dust
at the University of Nebraska. These researchers had invented
an estrogen metabolite laboratory test to measure a woman’s
risk for breast cancer which had only been available for
research endeavors. This laboratory measures the metabolites
of estrogen that represent estrogen which has “gone down an
inflammatory pathway” becoming the precursor to damaging
a woman’s DNA in a way that can result in breast cancer.
AVERTi is dedicated to placing the tools for prevention
of breast cancer in the hands of women and the physicians
who care for them. In conjunction with Longevity Healthcare,
they offer women comprehensive breast health analysis, teach
breast health basics, and preform thermal imaging services
which, according to Muran, is the most effective method of
screening breast health in conjunction with this specific new
estrogen laboratory for prevention of disease. They have also
created the AVERTi Breast Health Kit to support the modification
of estrogen’s metabolic pathways through nutrient
support.
The Murans funded an independent pilot study based on
the original research in conjunction with the University of
Nebraska researchers. Women from the community volunteered
to have their current risk for breast cancer measured
using the estrogen metabolite laboratory. Based on those results,
the Murans developed a personalized functional medicine
approach tailored to each individual. Each woman followed
her customized program, involving both clinical and
lifestyle factors, for 90 days and then repeated the estrogen
metabolite laboratory to see if her risk became lower than her
original measure. Results showed that every woman who was
reasonably compliant with her program was able to measurably
reduce her risk for breast disease.
Since then, the Murans have teamed with a commercial
laboratory to make this exciting estrogen metabolite laboratory
test available for the first time so a woman can quantify
her risk for breast disease. In addition, they are working with
professional physician organizations to disseminate this new
knowledge and findings to practitioners who can then work
with their female patients to measurably reduce risk.
“We’re excited about the prospects. We feel our biggest
success is on the horizon—within six to nine months—when
these tools are going to be available to healthcare consumers
and not sitting in research laboratories. Imagine the human
and economic savings if we were able to reduce the risk of
breast cancer for women,” said Muran. “Everyone knows a
woman who has suffered from breast cancer.”
While Muran had always worked in healthcare, including
serving as director of a hospice program in Orange County,
and involved in long-term care in Los Angeles, it wasn’t until
she became a mother that her interests turned to nutrition.
“Twenty-eight years ago I had a son who was allergic to everything
in the American diet,” she said, adding that there
wasn’t a lot of guidance on the subject at that time. “There’s
nothing like a motivated mother in terms of her infant son. I
began to educate myself and that eventually evolved into my
practice, and obtaining my PhD in nutrition.”
Muran estimates that 60% of Americans have some sort of
digestive issue. “If you own a high performance car and put
kerosene in it, it doesn’t work very well. It’s the same way
with our body. You have to put high-test fuel in it so it performs
well. And, that’s the role of nutrition and digestion,”
she explained.
Among the general nutritional recommendations Muran
shares with patients is to eat healthy protein-based snacks
including nuts, nut butters, and berries, and to drink filtered
or coconut water. “Coconut water meets your needs for trace
minerals, it energizes you and keeps your electrolytes balanced,”
she said.
And, as a final suggestion, Muran offers this eye-opener:
“When you see something that’s enriched, don’t eat it. In the
processing it has been so depleted of nutrient value that the
Food and Drug Administration required manufacturers to
add back in some nutrient value. So they did, and put a spin
on it calling it, ‘enriched.’”
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